单词 | cassie |
释义 | cassien.1 dialect. A kind of basket made of straw, used in Orkney and Caithness. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket basketa1300 scuttle1404 skull?a1513 cassiea1688 a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 34 A sort of Vessel made of Straw, called Cassies, in which they keep and transport their Corn. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 524 Straw cazzies which were used as sacks for carrying Victual. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. X. 23 (Jam.) Straw creels called cassies, made very compactly of long oat straw. 1880 Times 30 Sept. A peculiar basket made of plaited straw and called a ‘cassy’. The ‘cassy’ is strapped to the shoulders in such a way as to leave the hands free. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). cassien.2 = casse paper n.; also see quots. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > large quantity of > two outside quires of ream, usually damaged cording quire1652 casse paper1688 cassie1688 outsides1707 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 120/1 Cassie Quires, are the two out side Quires in a Ream, called also Cording Quires. Cassie Paper, are Quires made up by Paper-makers of Torn, Wrinkled, Stained or otherwise naughty Sheets. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 496 Cassie paper, broken paper. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 218/2 Cassie (printers), wrinkled, or outside sheets of paper. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 140/2 Cassie, the damaged tops and bottoms of a ream of paper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018). cassien.3 U.S. A leguminous shrub with yellow flowers, Acacia farnesiana. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 1876 C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. 20 Cassie, the flowers yield a perfume, Acacia Farnesiana. 1905 Young Woman Apr. 230/1 Mignonette, and cassie. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 3 A[cacia]..Farnesiana, ‘Popinac’, ‘Cassie’..Tropics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1a1688n.21688n.31876 |
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